Insurrection City: the radical beginnings of Ohlone Park
By Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics on Ohlone Park was born as a sortie in a war over whether public space would be controlled democratically or according to the whims of property owners.
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Tents and bars: the cycle between homelessness and incarceration
By Beth Divakaran and Anna Steiner on We cannot police our way out of a housing crisis or sweep the needs of our neighbors away.
Homeless helping homeless: The 3rd annual Wood Street solidarity bike ride
By Freeway on "If we can ride our bikes all the way to Sacramento, if we can organize meetings with lawmakers...we can do anything."
Rent strike syndrome: Ping Yuen tenants fight back
By Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics on Left in the Bay details the conditions leading to the longest rent strike in San Francisco history.
Illness and the state of the body
By Bradley Penner on '...new policies, these treatments, will target the easiest scapegoat—individuals. People misdiagnosed as malignancy, the “mysterious disease of individuals,” who are somehow, for some reason, spreading down the sidewalks and spilling out into the gutters.'
Inside Oakland’s encampment management strategy
By Freeway on "In less than a month’s time, the sweeps that plagued our communities went from useless, annoying, and traumatic to violent, sudden, and criminal."
Grants Pass is NOT for sale: Houseless, Indigenous Peoples respond and refuse the ban on our bodies and lives
By Tiny Gray-Garcia on "We have created our own justice."
What is a home?
By Inti Gonzalez on "The beautiful people of Oakland are what keep the city alive. But they are leaving too, the great majority of them not by choice."
Berkeley Copwatchers attempt to access public records
By Berkeley Copwatch on When police departments become more clandestine with the official records and reports, all people should wonder what might be going on behind the scenes that is causing them to do so.
Eight years since the Frisco 5 hunger strike: Learning from local revolutionary movements of the past
By Joshua Baltodano on The group fought police brutality by putting their own lives on the line.
Reflections on the UC Berkeley Free Palestine Encampment
By Dorothy Dane on "My homeless neighbors in the encampment taught me way more about building a self- sustaining world than the university
ever will"
‘Bodies and force’: Lessons from Alameda’s tenant organizers of the 1960s
By Matt Ray and Matthew Wranovics on In 1960s Alameda, Black residents of a low-income housing project fight back after government threatens to evict.